NNI is pleased to announce publication of its 2014/2015 Annual Newsletter. Read news and highlights about NNI work over the past year, including a faculty profile of Syed Mubeen and a staff profile of Sylvia Lee.

The paper “Size Matters in the Water Uptake and Hygroscopic Growth of Atmospherically Relevant Multicomponent Aerosol Particles” is highlighted on the ACS Publication website under ACS Editors' Choice. The paper just published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry shows how the hygroscopic growth of nanoscale particles are distinctly different from microscale particles due to differences in their structure. This has important implications for the atmospheric impacts of these particles. The paper is co-authored by Olga Laskina, Holly Morris,

NNI gives a warm welcome to Professor Tao Yang visiting from Heibei University in China. Professor Yang is a Ph.D. and Associate Professor of the College of Chemistry and Environmental Science and is visiting the Institute this Spring semester. He is interested in the interaction between nanoparticles and proteins as well as the stability of protein-nanoparticle composites.

Professor Vicki Grassian, F. Wendell Miller Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa has been named the 70th recipient of the Midwest Award from the American Chemical Society.